Severity assessment of acute pulmonary embolism: Role of CT angiography

Seminars in Roentgenology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-32

  Ferretti, Gilbert R ^a   Collomb, Delphine ^a   Ravey, Jean Noel ^a   Vanzetto, Gerald ^a   Coulomb, Max ^a   Bricault, Ivan ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Pulmonary embolism; Severity of illness index; Tomography; Ventricular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY OCCLUSION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COR PULMONALE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; HEART; HEART DISEASE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORPHOLOGY; PARAMETER; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBUS; ANGIOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 18444418853     PISSN: 0037198X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ro.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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